Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /al.leˈnar.si/
  • Rhymes: -arsi
  • Hyphenation: al‧le‧nàr‧si

Etymology 1 edit

From allenare (to train) +‎ -si (enclitic reflexive pronoun).

Verb edit

allenàrsi (first-person singular present mi alléno or mi allèno[1], first-person singular past historic mi allenài, past participle allenàto)

  1. reflexive of allenare
  2. to train (oneself)
  3. to do exercises
Conjugation edit

Etymology 2 edit

From allenare (to diminish, lessen) +‎ -si (enclitic reflexive pronoun).

Verb edit

allenàrsi (first-person singular present mi allèno[1], first-person singular past historic mi allenài, past participle allenàto) (literary)

  1. (intransitive) to diminish, lessen, weaken
    • 1850, Giosuè Carducci, Juvenilia[1], Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, page 9:
      Poi, se la fulgida ira s’alléni, ¶ Vola a i dolcissimi colli tirreni
      Then, if the shining rage weakens, it flies to the sweet Tyrrhenian hills
Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 alleno in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)